| Show TAFTS LAST DAY AS PRESIDENT bid bids staff farewell and give given formal welcome to successor washington P president resident tafts last day in the white house was vms one of his busiest As a NN working day it did not last more than ton hours but it was crowded with unusual e events ants full of incidents that fall to the man vvhs alts sits in the house and crowned with pleasantries the preal president deni shook hands with several hundred citizens and officials of the government received scores of telegrams from frends friends all over the world orld signed his name to pile after pile of pictures and letters and held hold three receptions he lie quitted the room he has occupied for four years in the executive offices with a smile and without a backward glance and with many a pleasant recollection ol of the days he hac has oil pent there he ile met his old time friends of the washington diplomatic corps and the justices of the supreme court in the white house and last of all he gae the first formal welcome wel ome in that mansion to the president elect and mrs wilson |
